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Of Other Spaces, Heterotopias
The heterotopia is capable of juxtaposing in a single real place several spaces, several sites that are in themselves incompatible. Thus it is that the theater brings onto the rectangle of the stage, one after the other, a whole series of places that are foreign to one another; thus it is that the cinema is a very odd rectangular room, at the end of which, on a two-dimensional screen, one sees the projection of a three-dimensional space, but perhaps the oldest example of these heterotopias that take the form of contradictory sites is the garden.
Posted in Anthropology, Language, Philosophy, Politics, Science Also tagged Culture, foucault, heterotopias, History, Technology 3 Comments
They don’t count and they have no number words
A small group of hunter/gatherers living in the Amazon rain forest is overturning some fundamental assumptions about the mind. Although linguists have long believed that counting and having words for numbers are basic, if not innate, to human cognition, the Pirahã people in Brazil have no words to express numerical concepts such as “one,” “two,” [...]
Posted in Anthropology, Asides, Language, Science Also tagged cognition, linguistics
Synchronistic Linguistics in the Matrix
As I write this on the night of April 25th, 1999, a film called The Matrix is number one at the box office. Though by no means a perfect science fiction movie, it still manages to pack one hell of a wallop. I'd hardly put it on the same scale as 2001: A Space Odyssey or Brazil, or even Blade Runner, but at the same time I don't believe the flaws in the film represent a weakness on the part of the Wachowski Brothers' writing talents. I believe the film is designed to disseminate a subversive message through the filter of popular culture. As Marshall McLuhan said, "Anything that's popular is a rear-view image."
The Matrix is not about the future, it's about the past.
Posted in Anthropology, Art, Featured, Film, Language, Philosophy, Poetry, Science, Technology Also tagged Bob Dobbs, Burroughs, communications, Culture, linguistics, Marshall McLuhan, matrix, media, movies 7 Comments
Since when do words belong to anybody?
“The poets are supposed to liberate the words – not chain them in phrases. Who told the poets they were supposed to think? Poets are meant to sing and to make words sing. Writers don’t own their words. Since when do words belong to anybody? ‘Your very own words,’ indeed! And who are you?” (‘Cut-Ups [...]
List of Unsolved Codes and Ciphers
This is an unofficial list of well-known unsolved codes and ciphers. A couple of the better-known unsolved ancient historical scripts are also thrown in, since they tend to come up during any discussion of unsolved codes. There has also been an attempt to sort this list by “fame”, as defined by a loose formula involving [...]
Linguistic Archaeology
Edo Nyland: In the following articles I will show many major languages which were invented by formulaic distortion and manipulation of the ancient language which Genesis 11:1 described as: "Now the whole world had one language". This was followed by Genesis 11:7, which instructed the religious leaders of the day: "Let us confuse their language so they can no longer speak to each other". And that is exactly what happened, all over the world.
Posted in History, Language, Science, Technology Also tagged Comparative method, Language, linguistics, Natural language, Social Sciences
Frame analysis on the word stage
Frame analysis reveals the complexity of mundane social activities and it brings out the arbitrary nature of any fixed, social-domain or activity-based dichotomy between what is “staged” and what is “real”. It brings out the reality-constructing capacities of what is staged, but also the staged nature of the everyday tangibly real. Note in this respect [...]
Posted in Anthropology, Asides, Language, Philosophy, Science Also tagged discourse analysis, ethnography, linguistics, semiotics
Water Words in the Mirror
One of your remarkable discoveries is that water responds to words, whether they are spoken, written, or even thought, as in prayer. Kind, uplifting words tend to produce beautifully shaped water crystals, while angry discordant expressions have produced warped crystals. via HADO | Interview with Dr. Emoto
Explaining the magic of consciousness with one word
Dennett argues that the ‘hard problem‘ is a red herring – the whole question of how conscious first person experience arises from the biological function of the brain assumes that consciousness is a single thing that needs explaining. He suggests that there isn’t a single thing that is consciousness, just a collection of mental components, [...]
Posted in Anthropology, Asides, Language, Science, Technology Also tagged consciousness, magic, words
How to Survive in America
This post on Flickr caught my eye as I was skipping rocks in my Netvibes universe today. Scanned cover of a book I found dumped in a box on a street in Berlin, from the Cambridge University Press printed in 1983. Love the dramatic title and the strangely psychedelic imagery. Oh, btw, this is a [...]
The Shake-Speared Brain: A Theatre of Simultaneous Possibilities
The authors have combined commentary, research, and news with opinion, facts, and figures to create a blog that’s crucial for those concerned about the environment.
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Science, Technology Also tagged shakespeare
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